In SparkLoop, you can create custom reports and get real insights into what is working (and what isn’t) in your referral campaigns using segments.

By organizing your subscribers into segments, you can generate data that allows you to think about questions such as:

As the old saying goes, what gets measured gets improved. Understanding how a campaign is performing is key to improving it.

Through segments, you can get unique insights into your referral program and do a deep dive into each individual metric.

There are three default segments already created for you in your SparkLoop dashboard. To view them, click on Subscribers and select the dropdown menu next to All subscribers.

In addition to your complete list of subscribers, you can also quickly see the following segments:

Advocates: This is a list of people who have referred at least one new person to your newsletter.

Referrals: A list of successful referrals that have been made, that is, the email addresses of all the people who signed up to your newsletter after being referred by a friend.

Pending referrals: People who have signed up for the newsletter but need to be manually approved in order to be counted as referrals.

To create a segment, simply go to your SparkLoop dashboard, click Subscribers, hit the New Segment button and select your filters.

You have the following options to choose from:

This filter allows you to create segments based on how subscribers signed up for your newsletter. You can choose between organic, referral, and partner, enabling you to create segments of subscribers who were acquired through each of those individual channels.

SparkLoop’s best-in-class anti-fraud settings allow us to detect referral fraud and make sure your subscribers don’t win rewards by cheating. You can also create segments of subscribers who’ve been verified, are unverified, have been rejected or are still pending.

Want a breakdown of which device your subscribers are using to interact with your newsletter? You can create segments for subscribers on mobile devices, tablets, or desktops.

Want to create a segment of subscribers that have a specific email address or are using a certain domain? This is the option to use.

Perhaps you want to make a list of subscribers who have referred more than 10 new subscribers so you can send them a personalized thank-you message. Or maybe you want to find out how many people stopped making referrals after their first one so you can motivate them to bring in more of their friends. This filter will help you create those segments. You can drill down even deeper by sign-up date and UTM parameters.

It can be helpful to track the revenue generate by your referral program in total or by your top advocates in particular. Creating a segment using this filter allows you to see which advocates have generated a certain amount of revenue through the subscribers they’ve referred.

To segment advocates by the amount of referral traffic they’ve generated, that is, the number of clicks to their referral link, you can use this filter. You can get super specific with date of visit and UTM parameters.

While the “referral revenue” filter allows you to track the revenue generated by subscribers brought in by a specific advocate, the revenue tracked filter allows you to segment subscribers by the revenue generated by each individual subscriber.

This filter allows you to segment your subscribers by the rewards they’ve won. For example, if you’re offering a $99 coupon for subscribers who’ve made 5 referrals, you can create a segment of subscribers who have received that $99 coupon.

Want to create a segment of subscribers who joined before, after, or on a certain date? This is the filter to use.

SparkLoop syncs with your ESP, which means that any new subscribes and unsubscribes are updated in SparkLoop automatically. Deleted and unsubscribed contacts will continue to show up in SparkLoop, however, to preserve historical data and for anti-fraud protection. This filter allows you to create segments of subscribers who are active or unsubscribed.

How long did it take for your subscriber to generate their first referral? This filter helps you create a segment to show just that.

If you’ve set UTM campaign parameters to understand where each new subscriber is coming from, this filter will help you create a segment of subscribers who’ve signed up within that campaign.

Within your UTM campaign, you can create a segment of subscribers coming through a specific UTM source.

Once you create a new segment, SparkLoop will go through your entire subscriber list to see which subscribers fit the segment criteria.

This is a process that can be almost immediate for smaller lists of 5,000 users, but can take several hours if your subscriber base ranges in the millions.

Once the segment is populated, however, all changes happen immediately and in real-time.

That’s it. Once your segments are populated, they will automatically be updated and ready for you to look through any time.